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Hello Gerrit, hello all,
I have four comments/proposals regarding the Mediawiki port.
1) PostgreSQL support is unnecessarily marked as "non functional".
PGSQL "Use PostgreSQL instead of MySQL (not funtional)" off
However, Mediawiki works flawlessly with PostgreSQL, I have a working
installation (FreeBSD-6.3/amd64, PostgreSQL-8.2). Port always
downloads and installs MySQL while no component of MySQL is needed.
2) The port doesn't (optionally) compile texvc from math/.
This application must be compiled if one wants built-in TeX rendering
support; this is compilable part of the source and goes to
/usr/local/www/. It calls for lang/ocaml(-notk) among BUILD_DEPENDS
and print/teTeX (or some smaller subset of packages) in RUN_DEPENDS.
3) There are some built-in functionalities (not some sort of plugin
options) that are enabled by default during Mediawiki installation.
Therefore the following ports should be IMHO added as dependencies:
a) at least one of - www/pecl-APC
- www/eaccelerator
- databases/memcached
- www/cache
for caching support;
b) graphics/ImageMagick for basic image handling support.
4) The Mediawiki manual suggests *not* to install source directly in
the server root.
IMHO, the port should optionally support installation to a *real*
server root subdir, which is difficult to achieve if files always
go to /usr/local/www/mediawiki/ directly. This is the recommended
method in Mediawiki manual:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL#Recommended_configuration_.28Used_on_Wikipedia.29
I'd like to know if the maintainer and Ports' people consider these
suggestions to be reasonable.
Best wishes.
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Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић
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